When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.